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Can These Two Clashing Living-Room Pieces Live Together?

The conflict: She loves her Chippendale-style sofa covered in a bohemian Suzani print. He won’t give up his streamlined stainless-steel-and-marble coffee table. Three designers suggest peacemaking pieces. Which solution do you like best?

Updated Aug. 30, 2016 5:55 p.m. ET

Solution 1

Marry the marble of the table with the upholstery’s intricacy. Brandon Quattrone, a partner in Los Angeles firm Consort Design, said: “The filigree of the white in the sofa’s tribal textile looks like something you’d find carved in an ancient wall.” Hence his decision to bring this classical late-19th-century Italian bust into the stylistic mix: The wave in the goddess Diana’s hair echoes the sofa pattern’s linework, he added, as does the drape of her robe. And the bust’s material, white marble, syncs with the coffee table’s top. “The room would come across as being of someone who’s very traveled.” Marble...